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sport

See also: Sport, SPORT, spórt, šport, and sport.

EnglishEdit

 
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EtymologyEdit

From Middle English sporten (verb) and sport, spoort, sporte (noun), apheretic shortenings of disporten (verb) and disport, disporte (noun). More at disport.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

sport (countable and uncountable, plural sports)

  1. (countable) Any activity that uses physical exertion or skills competitively under a set of rules that is not based on aesthetics.
  2. (countable) A person who exhibits either good or bad sportsmanship.
    Jen may have won, but she was sure a poor sport; she laughed at the loser.
    The loser was a good sport, and congratulated Jen on her performance.
  3. (countable) Somebody who behaves or reacts in an admirably good-natured manner, e.g. to being teased or to losing a game; a good sport.
    You're such a sport! You never get upset when we tease you.
  4. (obsolete) That which diverts, and makes mirth; pastime; amusement.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:hobby
  5. (obsolete) Mockery, making fun; derision.
  6. (countable) A toy; a plaything; an object of mockery.
    • 1697, Virgil, “The Sixth Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], OCLC 403869432:
      flitting leaves, the sport of every wind
    • a. 1676, John Clarke, On Governing the Temper
      Never does man appear to greater disadvantage than when he is the sport of his own ungoverned passions.
  7. (uncountable) Gaming for money as in racing, hunting, fishing.
  8. (biology, botany, zoology, countable) A plant or an animal, or part of a plant or animal, which has some peculiarity not usually seen in the species; an abnormal variety or growth. The term encompasses both mutants and organisms with non-genetic developmental abnormalities such as birth defects.
    • 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, OCLC 1167497017:
      We never shot another like it, so I do not know if it was a `sport' or a distinct species.
    • 2014 September 26, Charles Quest-Ritson, “The Dutch garden where tulip bulbs live forever: Hortus Bulborum, a volunteer-run Dutch garden, is dedicated to conserving historic varieties before they vanish for good [print version: Inspired by a living bulb archive, 27 September 2014, p. G5]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Gardening)‎[1]:
      At Hortus Bulborum you will find heirloom narcissi that date back at least to the 15th century and famous old tulips like 'Duc van Tol' (1595) and its sports.
  9. (slang, countable) A sportsman; a gambler.
  10. (slang, countable) One who consorts with disreputable people, including prostitutes.
  11. (obsolete, uncountable) An amorous dalliance.
  12. (informal, usually singular) A friend or acquaintance (chiefly used when speaking to the friend in question)
    • 1924 July, Ellis Butler, “The Little Tin Godlets”, in The Rotarian‎[2], volume 25, number 1, Rotary International, page 14:
      "Say, sport!" he would say briskly.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:friend
  13. Term of endearment used by an adult for a child, usually a boy.
    Hey, sport! You've gotten so big since I saw you last! Give me five.
  14. (obsolete) Play; idle jingle.
    • 1725-1726, William Broome, The Odyssey
      An author who should introduce such a sport of words upon our stage […] would meet with small applause.

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DescendantsEdit

From plural sports:

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VerbEdit

sport (third-person singular simple present sports, present participle sporting, simple past and past participle sported)

  1. (intransitive) To amuse oneself, to play.
    children sporting on the green
  2. (intransitive) To mock or tease, treat lightly, toy with.
    Jen sports with Bill's emotions.
    • 1663, John Tillotson, The Wisdom of being Religious
      He sports with his own life.
  3. (transitive) To display; to have as a notable feature.
    • 2013 July 20, “Welcome to the plastisphere”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:
      [The researchers] noticed many of their pieces of [plastic marine] debris sported surface pits around two microns across. Such pits are about the size of a bacterial cell. Closer examination showed that some of these pits did, indeed, contain bacteria, […].
    Jen's sporting a new pair of shoes;  he was sporting a new wound from the combat
  4. (reflexive) To divert; to amuse; to make merry.
  5. (transitive) To represent by any kind of play.
  6. To practise the diversions of the field or the turf; to be given to betting, as upon races.
  7. To assume suddenly a new and different character from the rest of the plant or from the type of the species; said of a bud, shoot, plant, or animal.
    • 1860, Charles Darwin, The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication
      more than one kind of rose has sported into a moss
  8. (transitive) To close (a door).
    • 1904, M. R. James, The Mezzotint
      There he locked it up in a drawer, sported the doors of both sets of rooms, and retired to bed.

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CzechEdit

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

sport m inan

  1. sport

DeclensionEdit

Declension of sport
singular plural
nominative sport sporty
genitive sportu sportů
dative sportu sportům
accusative sport sporty
vocative sporte sporty
locative sportu sportech
instrumental sportem sporty

Derived termsEdit

Related termsEdit

Further readingEdit

  • sport in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
  • sport in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

DutchEdit

PronunciationEdit

Etymology 1Edit

Borrowed from English sport, from Middle English sport, from Middle English sport, from older disport, from Old French desport. First attested in the 19th century. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

NounEdit

sport f (plural sporten, diminutive sportje n)

  1. (countable) A sport; (uncountable) sports.
    Mijn buurman is dol op sport. ― My neighbour is keen on sports.
    Darts is de gezondste sport op aarde. ― Darts is the most healthy sport on Earth.
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DescendantsEdit

Etymology 2Edit

From Middle Dutch sporte, metathesised form of sprote. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

NounEdit

sport f (plural sporten, diminutive sportje n)

  1. rung, step on a ladder
DescendantsEdit

Etymology 3Edit

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

VerbEdit

sport

  1. first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of sporten
  2. imperative of sporten

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EstonianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From German Sport, from English sport.

NounEdit

sport (genitive spordi, partitive sporti)

  1. sport, sports

DeclensionEdit

Declension of sport (type riik)
singular plural
nominative sport spordid
genitive spordi sportide
partitive sporti sporte / sportisid
illative sporti / spordisse sportidesse / spordesse
inessive spordis sportides / spordes
elative spordist sportidest / spordest
allative spordile sportidele / spordele
adessive spordil sportidel / spordel
ablative spordilt sportidelt / spordelt
translative spordiks sportideks / spordeks
terminative spordini sportideni
essive spordina sportidena
abessive spordita sportideta
comitative spordiga sportidega

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FrenchEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from English sport.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

sport m (plural sports)

  1. sport

Derived termsEdit

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Further readingEdit

HungarianEdit

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): [ˈʃport]
  • Hyphenation: sport
  • Rhymes: -ort

NounEdit

sport (plural sportok)

  1. sport

DeclensionEdit

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative sport sportok
accusative sportot sportokat
dative sportnak sportoknak
instrumental sporttal sportokkal
causal-final sportért sportokért
translative sporttá sportokká
terminative sportig sportokig
essive-formal sportként sportokként
essive-modal — —
inessive sportban sportokban
superessive sporton sportokon
adessive sportnál sportoknál
illative sportba sportokba
sublative sportra sportokra
allative sporthoz sportokhoz
elative sportból sportokból
delative sportról sportokról
ablative sporttól sportoktól
non-attributive
possessive - singular 		sporté sportoké
non-attributive
possessive - plural 		sportéi sportokéi
Possessive forms of sport
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. sportom sportjaim
2nd person sing. sportod sportjaid
3rd person sing. sportja sportjai
1st person plural sportunk sportjaink
2nd person plural sportotok sportjaitok
3rd person plural sportjuk sportjaik

Derived termsEdit

Compound words

Further readingEdit

  • sport in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

ItalianEdit

EtymologyEdit

Unadapted borrowing from English sport.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

sport m (invariable)

  1. sport (activity that uses physical skills, often competitive)
  2. hobby, pastime
    fare qualcosa per sport ― to do something for fun

Derived termsEdit

Lower SorbianEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from English sport.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

sport m

  1. sport (athletic activity that uses physical skills)

DeclensionEdit

Declension of sport
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative sport sporta sporty
Genitive sporta sportowu sportow
Dative sportoju sportoma sportam
Accusative sport sporta sporty
Instrumental sportom sportoma sportami
Locative sporśe sportoma sportach

ReferencesEdit

  • Starosta, Manfred (1999), “sport”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag

NormanEdit

NounEdit

sport m (plural sports)

  1. (Jersey) sport (physical activity pitting two or more opponents against each other)

Norwegian BokmålEdit

 
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Etymology 1Edit

From English sport.

NounEdit

sport m (definite singular sporten, uncountable)

  1. sport
    Synonym: idrett
Derived termsEdit

Etymology 2Edit

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Alternative formsEdit

VerbEdit

sport

  1. past participle of spore

ReferencesEdit

Norwegian NynorskEdit

EtymologyEdit

From English sport.

NounEdit

sport m (definite singular sporten, uncountable)

  1. sport
    Synonym: idrett

Derived termsEdit

ReferencesEdit

PolishEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from English sport.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

sport m inan

  1. sport

DeclensionEdit

Declension of sport
singular plural
nominative sport sporty
genitive sportu sportów
dative sportowi sportom
accusative sport sporty
instrumental sportem sportami
locative sporcie sportach
vocative sporcie sporty

Derived termsEdit

adjective
adverb
nouns

Further readingEdit

  • sport in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • sport in Polish dictionaries at PWN

RomanianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From French sport.

NounEdit

sport n (plural sporturi)

  1. sport

DeclensionEdit

Declension of sport
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) sport sportul (niște) sporturi sporturile
genitive/dative (unui) sport sportului (unor) sporturi sporturilor
vocative sportule sporturilor

Serbo-CroatianEdit

Alternative formsEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from English sport.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

spȍrt m (Cyrillic spelling спо̏рт)

  1. sport

DeclensionEdit

Declension of sport
singular plural
nominative spȍrt spòrtovi
genitive sporta sportova
dative sportu sportovima
accusative sport sportove
vocative sporte sportovi
locative sportu sportovima
instrumental sportom sportovima

Derived termsEdit

SwedishEdit

Etymology 1Edit

Borrowed from English sport, first used in 1857.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

sport c

  1. sport
DeclensionEdit
Declension of sport 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative sport sporten sporter sporterna
Genitive sports sportens sporters sporternas
Derived termsEdit
See alsoEdit

ReferencesEdit

Etymology 2Edit

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

PronunciationEdit

VerbEdit

sport

  1. supine of spörja.

AnagramsEdit

West FrisianEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Dutch sport, from English sport.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

sport c (plural sporten)

  1. sport (physical activity)

Further readingEdit

  • “sport”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
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